Computer-Aided Management of Requests for Photocopies Received by a Documentation Centre: Annual Report and Statistical Interpretation of Results (Gestion des Demandes de Photocopies Adressees a un Centre de Documentation: Rapport Annuel et Interpretation Statistique des Resultats)

摘要

The dissertation describes a method for studying, by computer, requests to information centers and libraries for technical literature. Details of the requests, such as periodical title, date of publication, source of supply, language, etc. are stored, counted, ranked and compared to allow annual assessment to be made of factors influencing the spread between various types of requests. In addition, facultative registering of (a) authors and title of documents offers both the editing of bibliographies and the generation of permuted indexes for information retrieval; and of (b) requests circulation transactions allows the follow-up of documents supply activities. New computer programs have been developed for these purposes and are explained.